Comments on: Should the atheist husband of a Christian woman allow her to have an abortion if there’s a chance the kid…?

By: JosefG

JosefG — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Naw, only if the kid could turn out to be mentally challenged or disabled or something.

By: Peadar

Peadar — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Even Gay Mormons have a right to life. If you can call it a "life"….

So no, she should have the child anyway.

By: Mr. Krinkle

Mr. Krinkle — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

haha.

By: Kristin B

Kristin B — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

You both need sterilized…end of story.

By: Metzae

Metzae — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

There’s always that chance, so no.

By: richter_8_6

richter_8_6 — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

o.0

The dumb – it burns us!

By: crasher

crasher — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

No it’s still murder.

By: rob

rob — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

isn’t it the woman’s choice?

By: phrog

phrog — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

"allow"?

By: B K

B K — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Yes, as long as they don’t "grow up" to be as childish as you.

By: Anon B

Anon B — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Personally I’m completely against abortion

By: misslabeled

misslabeled — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Husband allow??? Women aren’t property before or after marriage. He may have an opinion, but she can do whatever she wants.

By: Mikey

Mikey — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Your points are going into the negative.

By: Daver

Daver — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

There are no circumstances in which abortion can be considered the morally proper alternative:

Abortion – In Catholic morality, abortion is either direct (induced) or indirect. Direct abortion is any destruction of the product of human conception, whether before or after implantation in the womb. A direct abortion is one that is intended either as an end in itself or as a means to an end. As a willful attack on unborn human life, no matter what the motive, direct abortion is always a grave objective evil.
Indirect abortion is the foreseen but merely permitted evacuation of a fetus which cannot survive outside the womb. The evacuation is not the intended or directly willed result, but the side effect, of some legitimate procedure. As such it is morally allowable.
The essential sinfulness of direct abortion consists in the homicidal intent to kill innocent life. This factor places the controverted question as to precisely when human life begins, outside the ambit of the moral issue; as it also makes the now commonly held Catholic position that human life begins at conception equally outside the heart of the church’s teaching about the grave sinfulness of direct abortion.
Abortion has been condemned by the Church since apostolic times. The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, composed before A.D. 100, told the faithful "You shall not procure abortion. You shall not destroy a newborn child" (II, 2). Direct abortion and infanticide were from the beginning placed on the same level of malice.
Hundreds of ecclesiastical documents from the first century through to the present testify to the same moral doctrine, with such nuances as time, place, and circumstances indicated. The Second Vatican Council declared: "Life must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception," so that "abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes" (Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, IV, 51). Pope Paul VI confirmed this teaching in 1974. "Respect for human life,’ he wrote, "is called for from the time that the process of generation begins. From the time that the ovum is fertilized, a life is begun which is neither that of the father nor of the mother. It is rather the life of a new human being with its own growth. It would never be made human if it were not human already." Consequently, "divine law and natural reason exclude all right to the direct killing of an innocent human being"